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Good afternoon from MEZIESBLOG team! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers: 1. Suspected Boko Haram terrorists struck afresh yesterday in Yobe State, attacking an Islamic school boarding facility where they dragged out three students from bed and shot them dead. One other was wounded. 2. Six people died and three others were injured on Friday…
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Lockdown has been lifted in a hospital in northeastern Australia’s State of Queensland as police did not find weapons in it, Australia’s 9News network reported on Wednesday. An earlier local report said the Logan Hospital, which is approximately 20 kilometers south of the state capital of Brisbane, had been locked down by Queensland police on…
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The situation in the Middle East has reached a “critical level of dangerosity”, the EU’s foreign affairs chief has said. Josep Borrell said in a social media post that he supported calls for a UN Security Council resolution which urges a full end to hostilities at the shared border between Israel and Lebanon. Officials have been…
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More now from Hassan Nasrallah, who has been making a public address after Israeli’s military carried out what it called pre-emptive strikes in southern Lebanon. The Hezbollah leader said the attack went “as planned”, dismissing statements by the IDF that its preemptive strikes had stopped a larger attack. He said the group would assess the…
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Israel needs to act in self-defence against Hezbollah attacks which have caused areas of the north to become “ghost cities”, the Israeli ambassador to the UK has said. Speaking to Sky News, Tzipi Hotovely compared the scale of evacuations from large areas of northern Israel to major UK cities. “Can you imagine cities like Manchester…
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A man suspected of a stabbing rampage in the western German town of Solingen has been taken into police custody, a state official told German television on Saturday, some 24 hours after the attack that killed three people. North Rhine-Westphalia’s interior minister Herbert Reul told the ARD broadcaster that he was “a bit relieved” after…
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Intensive American diplomacy and an increased military posture in the Middle East may have prompted Tehran to reconsider a major retaliatory strike against Israel, according to The Washington Post. White House officials told the newspaper’s David Ignatius on Tuesday that they believe that President Joe Biden’s efforts to stave off a wider war are paying…
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Iran may fear a victory by Donald Trump would inflame relations with the United States and is thus trying to harm his presidential campaign in covert online influence operations, U.S. intelligence officials said Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported. Although Tehran remains primarily focused on fueling distrust in U.S. political institutions and increasing social discord, especially over…
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A police officer has been suspended after footage shared on social media showed a suspect being kicked in the head and stamped on at Manchester Airport. The suspect has been named as Fahir in an Instagram video where he appears alongside his lawyer Akhmed Yakoob. The lawyer is also representing a second man who was…
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Kenyan President William Ruto vowed on Sunday that his government will not allow violent protests that have led to untold suffering in several parts of the country. Ruto who has been under intense pressure from young protesters to drop high taxes, cut wastage and fight corruption, said the government will take tough measures to protect…
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The European Union said on Sunday that it has inaugurated newly constructed facilities at the General Dhagabadan Training Center (GDTC) in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. The EU said the training camp, managed by Somali Armed Forces, is used by EU Training Mission in Somalia (EUTM-S) to train Somali National Army and Somali Police Force,…
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The Ishieke Police Division in Ebonyi local government area of Ebonyi State came under heavy attack by unknown gunmen on Wednesday night. During the gun duel, five of the unknown gunmen were reportedly killed by the police. MEZIESBLOG learnt that the incident started around 9:30 pm with heavy shootings, forcing residents into hiding. One of…
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Russian penitentiary authorities foiled an attempt to take hostages in the south-western Rostov region, the TASS news agency reported Sunday. During a special operation to free the hostages at a pre-trial detention center in the region, the criminals armed with knives have been eliminated, and two employees held hostage were released and safe, Russia’s Federal…
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Police on Sunday shot and wounded a man armed with an axe and a firebomb in the northern German city of Hamburg. The man, with the axe in his hand, waved it at police officers in a “threatening manner” in the city’s St Pauli district, according to a police spokesman. Police officers opened fire and…
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At least 30 people were killed late Wednesday in an overnight attack blamed on Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels, who have recently launched a series of deadly incursions into the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a military spokesman confirmed on Thursday. ADF rebels launched an attack in the village of Mayikengo, Lubero Territory,…
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At least seven people, including four local security personnel, were killed when scores of gunmen attacked a community in Nigeria’s central Niger state recently, local media reported on Monday. More than 150 residents were abducted by heavily-armed gunmen during the incident late Friday in the Kuchi community of Munya local government area, according to multiple…
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